Native Americans in Our Culture

In many films or television shows for young children the idea of the “Indian” is presented.  They are all very stereotypical. For example, in Disney’s Pocahontas, the Native Americans, or Indians, are seen as warriors and savages throughout many battle scenes of the movie. There is also the song “Savages” that definitely shows the idea that Native Americans are evil, vicious and out to kill. Other stereotypes of Native Americans that are portrayed in Pocahontas are that Native Americans are very spiritual. Pocahontas talks to animals and trees, her grandmother is a tree. I believe that these ideas show that we are ignorant and stubborn when it comes to understanding other cultures/ethnicities so we just repeat the same ideas over and over again, instead of trying to understand and change the way we view other ethnicities in general.